Thon Oslofjord Sandvika

... art galleries do...they had a roving display of some fabulous Italian and French art. Wow.....I saw Vincent Van Gogh`s self portrait! And some wonderful Cezzanne, Monet, Manet., Degas....it was mind blowing! I hadn`t seen the Van Gogh self-portrait at any other museum....I`ve only seen this in print.........as it was on loan....when Bruce and I were in the Louvre or elsewhere.<br><br>This is when my kids decided to have a fight. Not a wordscrap....but an actual hitting ...

... no one seemed to know the station. The line up was way to long so I bought an internet slip in the station and tried to look for it. Then it hit me. Mester Gronn was the name of a flower shop in the main train station! I ran there but no sign of Medwin, so I just waited around. I was half an hour late now, but he quickly came and we took off for a train to his place. I was extremely lucky because he was doing one last check ...

... the large raft with a single sail that Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five sailed from South America to the pacific islands. (The original Kon-tiki had dashed on the reefs of the island it finally reached in the South Pacific at the end of its voyage. The raft could drift with the currents and the trade winds but could not be steered away from the reefs upon reaching its destination. Fortunately, they had had no particular island in mind and the ...

... let me through without a second glance as I entered Norway. Still no passport stamp. The highway also has a toll. But it's Zero for motorcycles. Awesome! Then the bad! Here is a copy of an email I sent to Katrine last night. "Had a great day riding to Oslo. It cleared up after lunch and the countryside is very nice because there's water everywhere. Then things went from bad to worse once I got to Oslo. Stopped at a hotel to see if they had room and at ...

The moving load came to Norway some hours after the family left Gardermoen, Oslo for Minneapolis. Harestua is a small village in the forest, some kilometers from the main capital in Norway, Oslo. We are intended to construct a new house here in 2009.

... choice was set: we ended up speaking German almost exclusively. It was very interesting since sometimes, I caught myself still thinking in Italian and translating it into an akward form of German. Perhaps too much limoncello from Fabiana and Marco's wedding last night was influencing my mind. However, at other times, when we found ourselves thinking in English or Norwegian, we would use those words and still understood each other ...

... seeing Buckingham Palace as a child on a family holiday to London and i must say it was as boring an experience now as it was then. The only interesting thing i find is the guards, I'm sure we have all dreamed of a job where we can get paid to stand around and do nothing but to me that's got to be the toughest stand around and do nothing jobs that you could possibly get paid for. I don't know how they can stand like that for hours at a time. What do they think about?? By the ...

... as you walked through the streets - amazingly you can see the influence of nearby countries on their style of architectures based on what happened to the Norwegian history throughout time. To my surprise, this whole museum reminded me of my father. My dad grew up on a farm, being raised as a farm hand alike with his siblings. To see the farms, school houses, the snow and to have it all progress to the 1970´s of older gas stations, and ...

Hello everyone, sorry for not updating this for a while. Everything has been going well over in Norway, nothing too exciting to talk about, but it has been fun. I'm going to be on an excursion to Northern Norway this week, so hopefully I'll have some interesting stuff to post when I get back. School has officially started up and I'm currently working on my second paper. My first paper was a history paper on 1905 when Norway dissolved its union with ...

... put Lewis's wet towel on my clothes. When we got back from exploring, they told us they moved all of our stuff to reception as we had to change rooms. We knew this, but as they didnt seem to, we figured the plan had changed so we didnt arrange to move rooms. As in, my pjs and that sort of thing we're packed. We had food in the fridge and stuff in the locker. And they put Lewis's wet towel on my clothes. Anyhoo, we get to our knew room, and its tiny and ...